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Organization Contact Information | |
| Name: | Counseling and Family Life Organization (CAFLO) |
| Street 1: | Ilala, Dar Es Salaam. |
| Street 2: | Kilosa, Morogoro |
| City: | Dar Es Salaam city |
| Province: | Dar Es Salaam |
| Post Code: | 255 |
| Country: | United Republic of Tanzania |
| Phone: | +255754833145 |
| Email: | caflotanzania@yahoo.com |
| Web Site: | http://www.envaya.org/caflo |
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General Information | |
| Organization Type - Primary: | Non-Governmental Organization |
| Organization Type - Secondary: | Other Non-Governmental Organization (NGO) |
| Is your organization legally registered in your country: | Yes |
| Organization Reach: | National |
| Organization Description: | |
| Counseling and Family Life Organization (CAFLO) is a non-profit making, non-political, voluntary and non governmental organization (NGO) established in June 2006 and got registration in February 2007 under non Government Organizations Act 2002 of united republic of Tanzania,its registration number is OONGO/1900. Vision: CAFLO envisage for the vibrant society of which people are living peacefully, healthily and well observing human rights with full participation in various socio-economic development programs. Mission: CAFLO exists to improve and promote peace, health and socio-economic development by empowering family members to fight against problems/crisis facing them like HIV/AIDS, TB, Malaria and other fatal diseases, domestic violence, poverty, child abuse, drug abuse, hunger, commercial sex works, alcoholism, etc. The interest of CAFLO to combat TB:According to the mission, health improvement and promotion is among the roles of CAFLO, and TB infection is among the major diseases which have been affecting many family members in Tanzania especially grassroots people. Thus, CAFLO`s experts have been spent time to empower various community members to prevent TB infections in their daily life, therefore community sensitization meetings and seminars have been organized aimed at equiping people with skills and knowledge on preventing TB infection, and this has been done hand to hand with encouraging them to go to hospital or health centers for TB check up. Our plan:In order to achieve the mission and reach the vision, we have largely planned to increase efforts on identifying many people who have infected with TB, and among the measures to be used is to increase human resource whereas more peer educators/community sensitizers and sputum fixers will be trained effectivelly. Also, CAFLO has planned to strengthen collaboration with several government hospitals, health centers and dispansaries for enabling TB patients to access quality treatment. |
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| Total number of staff in your organization: | 6 - 10 |
| Number of full-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 1 - 5 |
| Number of part-time staff who are directly involved with TB: | 0 |
| Number of volunteers who are directly involved with TB: | 11 - 25 |
| What is your organization's annual budget (USD) dedicated to TB? | $25,000-$100,000 |
| How did you hear about the Stop TB Partnership: | Involvement in TB control provision |
| Why do you wish join the Stop TB Partnership: | Resource mobilization |
| Are you a member of a Stop TB national partnership: | No |
| Are you in contact with your national TB programme: | Yes |
| Please tell us how your organization is contributing to your country's national TB control plan: | |
| As CAFLO has been spending time to empower community members to combat TB infection through community sensitization meeting and seminar. This has been done in accordance with the national TB control plan. | |
Geographical Reach | |
| Which country is your headquarters located in: | United Republic of Tanzania |
| Which WHO region is the main focus of your work: | African |
| Which countries do you do operate in: (This includes countries you are conducting activities in) |
United Republic of Tanzania |
Specializations | |
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Advocacy, communication and social mobilization Research and Development TB Healthcare Services |
Specializations in Countries | |
| TB Healthcare Services | United Republic of Tanzania |
Contribution | |
| Please tell us how your organization will contribute to the Global Plan to Stop TB by briefly describing its involvement in any of the areas of work listed below: | |
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Drug-Resistant TB: Adherence counselling has been provided by Counsellors so as to enable TB patients to follow effectively treatment as among the way to avoid drug resistance. TB-HIV: Empowering the community members to let them know the relationship between HIV and TB,and the way they can be involved in combating both. At this situation people living with HIV/AIDS have been given first priority to combat TB infections for their heath management. New Diagnostics: CAFLO will largelly inclined on identifying new TB patients and reffer them to the government hospitals and health centers as well as private hospitals for further treatment. The identification will be done by using both Peer Educators and Sputum Fixers. Also CAFLO`s Counsellors will provide counseling service to the TB patients. |
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Declaration | |
| Declaration of interests: I agree. | |
| Application date: | September 7, 2012 |
| Last updated: | September 23, 2012 |